The Ashgate Research Companion to Regionalisms (Hardcover)

Part I; 1: Introduction and Overview: The Study of New Regionalism(s) at the Start of the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century; 2: Comparing Regionalisms: Methodological Aspects and Considerations; 3: Formal and Informal Regionalism; 4: The Rise of Interregionalisms: The Case of the European Union's Relations with East Asia; Part II; 5: The European Union: A New Form of Governance; 6: Regionalism in Flux: Politics, Economics, and Security in the North American Region; 7: Norms, Identity, and Divergent Paths toward Regional Order in South and Southeast Asia: ASEAN and SAARC in Comparative Perspective; 8: China and Economic Regionalism in East Asia; 9: Hemispheric Regionalism in the Americas; 10: The Changing Context of Regionalism and Regionalisation in the Americas: Mercosur and Beyond; 11: The Evolution of the African Union Commission and Africrats: Drivers of African Regionalisms; 12: The ‘New' ECOWAS: Implications for the Study of Regional Integration; 13: Regional Organisation, Regional Arena: The SADC in Southern Africa; Part III; 14: Oceania: A Critical Regionalism Challenging the Foreign Definition of Pacific Identities in Pursuit of Decolonised Destinies; 15: Middle East Regionalisms: Can an Institution Bridge Geo-Culture to Geo-Economics?; 16: Beyond Geography: BRIC/SAM and the New Contours of Regionalism; 17: Commonwealths and Regionalisms in the First Quarter of the Twenty-First Century; 18: Spatial Development Initiatives: Two Case Studies from Southern Africa; 19: The Transnational Gang: Challenging the Conventional Narrative; 20: Transfrontier Conservation and the Spaces of Regionalisms; 21: New Regionalisms, Micro-Regionalisms, and the Migration-Conflict Nexus: Evidence from Natural Resource Sectors in West Africa